Surreal in a sentence as an adjective

It's so surreal. Oh, the crime isn't so bad.

So, that's a weird and surreal and true point. But some things seem dead-off.

It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic.

It's surreal how all this is going down. It's like watching a conspiracy theory movie.

I mean, isn't this almost surreal? Like a cheap sci-fi novel has become reality?

But it was just a really surreal experience. We got dozens of texts and emails that day all asking if we had seen the picture.

Read the comic of the kid in the high chair as the panels being oriented like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 rather than: 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 It's much more surreal that way.

Being able to build something that I imagine, push it out to people, and see them get excited about it is surreal. I don't want to be doing anything else.

Reading this article is surreal, like living in an alternate world: "... and because theres so much federal funding for science".

It was kind of surreal. I haven't presented to any other big-corp CEO other than him, so I can't really draw any comparisons.

After working one year in the US and having one week of vacation, it was bordering on surreal to have 6. That said, most Americans wouldn't like the European pay scales.

It's such a surreal concept to me that having to be picked up by emergency services will cost you money. I feel so incredibly lucky to live in a country where healthcare is free.

Kind of surreal. On the day of the IPO, one minute I was still a working stiff, and the next minute I was suddenly looking at an account with my name on it with more digits than I had ever seen before.

It was surreal, having know the awkward girl from a few years earlier. But what no one talked about was the years she forewent hanging out with other girls in middle school, watching TV and doing her hair with girlfriends in high school...

And the case worked out true to form, with what must have appeared to be surreal results from the viewpoint of the midwest firm's executive management. Six lawyers and four paralegals were assigned to the case.

It's surreal thinking about how TSA and customs will put away recreational drug users for life but the bank that funds the largest drug cartels operates out in the open. Our system is broken at every level.

I know it sounds surreal, but they are arguing here that you only control your own body with respect to abortion, intimate relations, and euthanasia. Everything else is controlled by the FDA, yea even unto your death from cancer.

It was a bit surreal to see two of my HN comments in a blog post on the front page of HN. Since people are interested, here's another tale of my year running affiliate campaigns on Facebook. By the time I got into the game the competition was already heating up.

It's been a very surreal day for me, I'm incredibly disappointed that he chose to criticize a job which he only gained through my action. I don't know whether any of you should go to China, but hopefully I've given you a little perspective on why he did.

I've made a few 911 calls, but the last one was pretty surreal. My partner and I were walking past a high rise where people go to score and in front of us on the pavement we saw a man and a woman trying to wake up someone who seemed on the verge of OD. He wasn't responding, the two were frantic, and everybody was watching from the other side of the road.

The continuous attempts to reframe Craigslist's actions as an attempt to stifle innovation seem almost surreal. I just can't understand how a community of professionals could support Padmapper in this.

Interestingly enough, my conversations with Paypal became more and more surreal and I felt more and more powerless with every one in the end. I had a trail of information and there was evidence of multiple fraud, but I never felt as powerless as I did after my phone calls with Paypal.

During one surreal leadership presentation where hundreds of people joined via a web meeting and many more were present in person, someone forgot to lock down presenter rights, and people kept drawing on the slides.

It's surreal that, after all the blow-up-in-your-face moments that social media apps have had after doing underhanded things like this in recent memory, companies are still pushing under-the-radar hard sells like this. It has to take an incredible combination of obliviousness and ethical failure to still consider something like this a good idea.

Quote Examples using Surreal

If the posthumous prosecution of Sergei L. Magnitsky, the lawyer who was jailed as he tried to expose a huge government tax fraud and died four years ago in a Russian prison after being denied proper medical care, seemed surreal from the moment the authorities announced it, the verdict and sentencing on Thursday did not disappoint. By all accounts, it was Russias first trial of a dead man, and in the tiny third-floor courtroom of the Tverskoi District Court, it took the judge, Igor B. Alisov, more than an hour and a half to read his decision pronouncing Mr. Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion.

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Surreal definitions

adjective

characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

See also: phantasmagoric phantasmagorical surrealistic

adjective

resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

See also: dreamlike